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What is "ambagious"

The Collaborative International Dictionary
Ambagious

Ambagious \Am*ba"gious\, a. [L. ambagiosus.] Circumlocutory; circuitous. [R.]

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
ambagious

1650s, from French ambagieux, from Latin ambagiosus, from ambages "circuits, circumlocutions," from amb- "about" (see ambi-) + agere "to drive" (see act (n.)).

Wiktionary
ambagious

a. 1 roundabout; vague. 2 indefinite. alt. 1 roundabout; vague. 2 indefinite.

WordNet
ambagious

adj. roundabout and unnecessarily wordy; "had a preference for circumlocutious (or circumlocutory) rather than forthright expression"; "A periphrastic study in a worn-out poetical fashion,/ Leaving one still with the intolerable wrestle/ With words and meanings."-T.S.Eliot; (`ambagious' is archaic) [syn: circumlocutious, circumlocutory, periphrastic]

Usage examples of "ambagious".

However, has it occurred to you that under present conditions, the most feasible route may unavoidably be circuitousnot to say ambagious, periphrastic and anfractuous?